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• v  add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
  She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
• v  produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product
• v  make more complex, intricate, or richer
• v  work out in detail
• s  developed or executed with care and in minute detail
  the carefully elaborated theme

• It would be easy to scoff at such ideas, elaborated by Laura Doyle in her book The Surrendered Wife (Simon Schuster) as retro or ridiculous.
• He elaborated: "The caffeine is a stimulant that triggers the false impression that kids can drink more and still function normally.
• I have always sort of elaborated with my dance clothes.

• elaborate
• lucubrate
• expatiate
• exposit
• enlarge
• flesh out
• expand
• expound
• dilate
• complicate
• refine
• rarify
• work out
• detailed

• contract

News & Articles

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• ForexMinute.com Now Offers Forex Brokers Reviews for Educated FX Traders
  ForexMinute.com, the world’s premier online Forex information portal, now brings unadulterated and elaborated Forex broker reviews for traders and users. (PRWeb June 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10838649.htm
  June 20, 2013 - PRWeb
• UK Private Motor Insurance Industry Examined by Timetric in Insightful Report Now Available at MarketPublishers.com
  Research report “Private Motor Insurance in the UK, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2016” elaborated by Timetric has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. According to the study, gross written premiums of the private motor insurance industry in the UK grew by over 6.65% y-o-y in 2011. (PRWeb June 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10853552.htm
  June 20, 2013 - PRWeb
• Nomura: Final Fantasy 15 on PS3 may have 'caused us to look inferior'
  Square Enix game director Tetsuya Nomura has elaborated on the choice to bring Final Fantasy 15 - previously known as Final Fantasy Versus 13 - to next-generation consoles instead of PS3, the original platform when the game was first announced in 2006. In an interview with Famitsu (via Polygon ), Nomura said Square Enix moved the game to Xbox One and PS4 because "the lifespan of the current ...
  June 19, 2013 - Joystiq

Quotes

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• Carl-Henric Svanberg in Reuters
  We could have elaborated more on the dynamics and understood the consequences ourselves a bit better,Svanberg said.
• Sir Alex Ferguson in ITV.com
  We have the bit between our teeth now,said manager Ferguson. "That is another game gone and we are another goal better off, so it has been a good night for us. Maybe we over-elaborated at times but Watford set out their stall to make it...
• Roberto Costa in International Herald Tribune
  As is customary, a contingency plan has been elaborated and we do not expect production or supplies to be affected,Costa said.